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Research Cycle: Plan Your Research

• Skill: Determine your research needs.
• Skill: Understand different publication types.
• Skill: Understand what primary and secondary source
• Skill: Recognize which resources are the best to use and why.
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• Skill: Develop a strategy for finding relevant information, including a variety of resources.
• Skill: Develop a strategy to solve an information problem
• Skill: Understand importance of different points of view

• Skill: Search library catalogs
• Skill: Identify and use parts of a book to gather information
• Skill: Select keywords and phrases for using internet search engines, directories, databases.
• Skill: Be able to narrow and broaden keywords and phrases.
• Skill: Understand how to locate material in library.
• Skill: Understand the difference between a scholarly and popular magazine